Part of Rose Gardner Mystery
First published 2014
Rose Gardner is standing in a Henryetta bank when armed robbers walk in and walk out with her deposit bag, cash and all. That stolen money belonged to her nursery business, and with her sister Violet already running the finances into the ground, Rose is suddenly fighting to keep everything she built from collapsing. The timing gets worse. Her ex-boyfriend Joe Simmons has just taken the chief deputy sheriff job in town, and her witness statement gives him every excuse to get close again. Rose's boyfriend, Fenton County Assistant District Attorney Mason Deveraux, is not about to step aside. He wants Rose, and he intends to hold on. Pregnant best friend Neely Kate pushes Rose toward a plan: use Rose's visions and Neely Kate's encyclopedic knowledge of local gossip to track down the thieves themselves. The two women start pulling on threads, and the leads get warmer. But the biggest shock does not come from the robbery. Neely Kate spots something Rose has not let herself consider yet. Rose may be pregnant. With two men in her orbit and a business on the edge, that possibility changes everything.
Genres: romance, mystery, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, humorous, romantic, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-detective, found-family, love-triangle, second-chance-romance
Setting: Henryetta, Fenton County
Period: contemporary
372 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform